When you’re grappling with a clunky, out-of-date intranet, Hadron boosts you straight to a new digital workspace that enables modern collaboration and business processes.

In the end it took just eight weeks from deployment to launch – I couldn't believe how quick the turnaround was. Before Hadron, just 10% of people were ‘completely satisfied’ with our intranet. A year on, we’re at 96%. We have a clear communication structure and the intranet has become part of the language and culture of the Trust.

When different people need access to different reports and data, Power BI offers relevant, timely information for staff. So your analytics team can focus on uncovering meaningful insights for your organisation to act on.

Power BI is really powering our 'digital tomorrow' strategy: we get instant information, that is easily digestable and allows us to quickly act on the insights it provides. We're making better decisions to move our vision forward.

When moving to the cloud is advantageous but daunting, we lift the veil on the complexity so you can succeed against your business challenges.

Moving our SQL Servers into Azure is actually an exciting prospect now. We’re expecting to save £11.3m over the next three years. What's even more exciting is that the investment we'll be making into Office 365 will not only give our staff the freedom to work from wherever they are but the financial investment will be recovered in two months!

Analytics

Power BI provides analytics which free up business intelligence teams so they can drive organisational progress. It's fast, intuitive and self-serve, allowing staff to obtain timely and actionable insights, with a shared version of the truth.

People

A true directory - Connect delivers information on your colleagues, teams and places organisation-wide. Find the right colleagues and teams, understand where they are located, what they do, and connect these to get work done. Connect manages and links profiles for your staff (using Office 365 profiles), teams, locations and more – which is why we call it our enterprise hub.

Predictive analytics

Advanced analytics using machine learning and artificial intelligence offer organisations forecasting capabilities they previously only dreamed about. These help you discover patterns and trends so you can go beyond knowing what’s happened, and transfer knowledge into action to meet your goals for the future.

Document management

Applications

Individual applications help staff get more done, fast. Bespoke apps, to take care of things like annual leave or expenses, can be built into Hadron, your existing digital workspace or as freestanding solutions that live in Azure -
Microsoft’s Cloud platform.

Online

With so many collaboration options on Office 365, it can be hard to know where content should sit, and how to guide owners and employees to make appropriate choices on what tools to use and where to store content. In this joint webinar between Cloud2 and ClearBox Consulting, we explore the options available and give practical advice on managing files and team collaboration within Office 365, including exploring Office Groups, MS Teams, use of OneDrive and SharePoint. We also provide a decision tree approach

This is effectively Part Three in a series of blogs on managing content across the organisation, as part of moving to a cloud. I’ve previously mused on Microsoft Teams and Office 365 Groups, as well as the complex issue of ‘Putability’.

The release of Power BI Premium in June 2017 was a major milestone for Microsoft and its flagship BI platform; however, Premium continues to cause some confusion to some. So what’s the difference between Free, Pro and Premium?

My thinking has evolved a little further with regards to using Office 365 collaboration since my last blog. This is driven by some further investigation into the recent upgrades to Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams.